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By Molly Merrill | 05:30 pm | August 23, 2010
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced more than $32 million in funding on Monday aimed at boosting access to healthcare service in rural areas, including approximately $4 million for telehealth projects.
By Armin Scheuer | 03:32 pm | August 23, 2010
Hyderabad’s airport is a symbol of India’s economic success: organized, modern, efficient. The city is host to this year’s eIndia, the country’s largest ICT event – with a dedicated track on eHealth. The question is, what are the opportunities for eHealth in India? I am here to find out.
By Molly Merrill | 01:33 pm | August 23, 2010
MEDS-ED Link, a project of the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO) done in conjunction with Inova Health System and GE Healthcare, launched on Monday. It provides emergency physicians access to patient medication histories.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:34 am | August 23, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a $200 million contract to HP Enterprise Services for software applications related to Medicare Part B claims processing and the delivery of services to beneficiaries.
By Molly Merrill | 10:21 am | August 23, 2010
Yale School of Medicine is in the process of notifying approximately 1,000 individuals whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was recently stolen.
By Mary Mosquera | 10:20 am | August 23, 2010
The federal Health IT Policy Committee has endorsed a set of recommendations on when healthcare providers must obtain consent before exchanging patient heath records electronically with other clinicians, testing labs or health information exchange (HIE) networks.
By Kyle Hardy | 03:24 pm | August 20, 2010
St. Helens and Whiston hospital recently automated its bed management. The IMS MAXIMS real-time system recently went live at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Officials say has simplified the handling of more than 500 patient admissions, discharges and transfers a day.
By Mary Mosquera | 01:33 pm | August 20, 2010
ONC must decide whether to incorporate the privacy recommendations as part of the rules for the first stage of the meaningful use plan.
By Kyle Hardy | 12:54 pm | August 20, 2010
Macquarie University Hospital performed Australia's first Gamma Knife surgery with its new Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion system on Aug. 3, making it the country's first center capable of providing dedicated intracranial radiosurgery.
By Diana Manos | 11:17 am | August 20, 2010
The patients at hospitals with the most advanced type of electronic medical records are likely to spend 22.4 percent less time in the emergency room than at other hospitals, a new study from the W.P.Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows.